The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 93% of the 138 1920s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic97/100
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
1,334 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei EisensteinDirector
- Edmund MeiselOriginal Music Composer
- Sergei TretyakovWriter
- Sergei EisensteinWriter
- Nina AgadzhanovaWriter
- Nikolay AseevWriter
- Grigori AleksandrovWriter
Cast
- Aleksandr AntonovGrigory Vakulinchuk
- Vladimir BarskyCommander Golikov
- Grigori AleksandrovChief Officer Giliarovsky
- Ivan BobrovYoung Sailor Flogged While Sleeping
- Mikhail GomorovMilitant Sailor
- Aleksandr LevshinPetty Officer
- Nina PoltavtsevaWoman with Pince-nez
- Konstantin FeldmanStudent Agitator
- ProkhorenkoMother Carrying Wounded Boy
- A. GlaubermanWounded Boy
- Beatrice VitoldiWoman with Baby Carriage
- Danylo AntonovychSailor
Stills
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Themes
panicbaby carriagecossackslaughtermassacreragesailorsilent filmrussian revolution (1917)revoltimperial russiainsubordination
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